The Independent Crossword October 31 2026 Answers

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Below are all 109 clues from the The Independent Crossword for October 31 2026. Stuck on one? Click the clue to reveal its verified answer, plus every other answer that clue has had across every publisher in our database.

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Complete51 AcrossReveal answer → Righteous extra farewell71 AcrossReveal answer → Agitate44 AcrossReveal answer → Copper's letters read aloud in farewell65 AcrossReveal answer → Halloween cry127 AcrossReveal answer → Mediocre (Informal)58 AcrossReveal answer → Spanish rice dish69 AcrossReveal answer → AI distorts Latin translation - we like to do things the old way1510 AcrossReveal answer → 1982 Taylor Hackford film starring Richard Gere and Debra Winger2211 AcrossReveal answer → Male relative611 AcrossReveal answer → Some geisha I fancy in foreign port511 AcrossReveal answer → Slough House Joe getting one of the dogs switched on internally512 AcrossReveal answer → Beat613 AcrossReveal answer → See 251913 AcrossReveal answer → Dog belonging to Norman Scott that was shot in the scandal that ended the career of Jeremy Thorpe514 AcrossReveal answer → Low satellite that's waned314 AcrossReveal answer → Talks fall short unfortunately without resistance - there’s no more1315 AcrossReveal answer → Attraction or repulsion of concert if game rearranged1316 AcrossReveal answer → Sir Thomas ___, author of Le Morte d'Arthur616 AcrossReveal answer → Wall plaster616 AcrossReveal answer → A demon in male form such as one said to have fathered Merlin718 AcrossReveal answer → Mistake518 AcrossReveal answer → Group whose first album, released in 1995, became the fastest-selling debut album in UK history819 AcrossReveal answer → Power-crazed person1219 AcrossReveal answer → Bohemian-born Austrian composer and conductor whose works include Das Lied von der Erde1220 AcrossReveal answer → Satirical sketch420 AcrossReveal answer → Shabby521 AcrossReveal answer → A Hawaiian word for hello or goodbye523 AcrossReveal answer → Darwin's regularly trimmed beard323 AcrossReveal answer → Muslim in student body turned to the west524 AcrossReveal answer → Farewell promotion Independent editor initially refused essentially525 AcrossReveal answer → The only artist to have won four consecutive Grammy Awards for Best Female Country Vocal Performance1925 AcrossReveal answer → Thus extensive genetic fingerprint reversal cheers in respect of complete school book2826 AcrossReveal answer → English playwright whose TV dramas include Bar Mitzvah Boy, Spend, Spend, Spend and The Knowledge1326 AcrossReveal answer → Port and resort in Liguria, Italy, in which two treaties were signed after World War I731 AcrossReveal answer → Scottish knight and landowner, executed for treason in 1305, who inspired the 1995 film Braveheart1432 AcrossReveal answer → Word meaning spoken without advance preparation, shortened from a Latin phrase literally meaning 'according to pleasure'534 AcrossReveal answer → See 321435 AcrossReveal answer → Earl of Mercia who was the husband of Lady Godiva736 AcrossReveal answer → Small Tibetan dog with a long straight dense coat and a feathered tail carried curled over its back937 AcrossReveal answer → 1994 John Badham action movie starring Wesley Snipes, Gary Busey and Yancy Butler839 AcrossReveal answer → A medieval form of the oboe542 AcrossReveal answer → Another name for a will-o’-the-wisp1244 AcrossReveal answer → Song by The Frank and Walters that reached number 11 in the UK singles chart in 1993846 AcrossReveal answer → Festival held at the end of the harvest season in Gaelic and Brythonic cultures749 AcrossReveal answer → Second largest of the Isles of Scilly651 AcrossReveal answer → See 531452 AcrossReveal answer → American jazz trumpeter and singer nicknamed "Satchmo"1453 AcrossReveal answer → American medical sitcom that ran from 2001 to 2010654 AcrossReveal answer → German director of the films The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant and The Marriage of Maria Braun2256 AcrossReveal answer →

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Cry when capturing leader of coup in German town61 DownReveal answer → English city called Aquae Sulis by the Romans41 DownReveal answer → Evaluate71 DownReveal answer → Hebrew patriarch losing head about awful one, a prophet72 DownReveal answer → The Eurasian caryophyllaceous plant Saponaria officinalis82 DownReveal answer → Fibre from old rope52 DownReveal answer → Continent63 DownReveal answer → Ships string bean I ordered113 DownReveal answer → 1999 autobiography by Geri Halliwell63 DownReveal answer → 1996 single by Alanis Morissette from the album Jagged Little Pill64 DownReveal answer → Shrill scream74 DownReveal answer → A former ruler weary after uprising in African country74 DownReveal answer → American city that is the seat of the University of Michigan85 DownReveal answer → Considering everything55 DownReveal answer → Engraving76 DownReveal answer → Popular band singer in the 1930s who later became a voice actor on the radio show Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh86 DownReveal answer → Trimmed belly: about 45 inches!36 DownReveal answer → Covering gossip about two mums77 DownReveal answer → Author of Lavengro and Romany Rye127 DownReveal answer → Finished and ruined, in conclusion68 DownReveal answer → Yellow Italian herbal liqueur produced since 1860 in Benevento, Campania68 DownReveal answer → A group of seven singers or instrumentalists or a piece of music composed for such a group69 DownReveal answer → Complain as jeans are turned up without the slightest bit of needlework69 DownReveal answer → Hug710 DownReveal answer → 1978 thriller movie about a Mars landing hoax starring Elliott Gould and James Brolin1210 DownReveal answer → Arizona ___, the oldest continuously-run professional American football club in the United States912 DownReveal answer → Bewitch712 DownReveal answer → Oleander obtained from nymph after party with Greek character1113 DownReveal answer → Frighten greatly714 DownReveal answer → Permeable to water615 DownReveal answer → Fine adjustment517 DownReveal answer → Ring-bearing girl the French found in ancient city717 DownReveal answer → The capital of Nigeria517 DownReveal answer → Helmet that protects at the crease618 DownReveal answer → Sidestep518 DownReveal answer → One fighting behind the lines cycling in ditch719 DownReveal answer → A letter from Greece opposing Italian import perhaps?720 DownReveal answer → A green or bluish patina formed on copper, brass or bronze921 DownReveal answer → Rock service provided621 DownReveal answer → Singer who joined the The New Seekers in 1970 and featured on hits such as I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing722 DownReveal answer → State school’s violent and sudden uprising622 DownReveal answer → Breed of horse, originally from America, typically having a spotted rump924 DownReveal answer → The fastest steam locomotive ever, reaching 126 miles per hour in 1938725 DownReveal answer → 1962 Grand National winner ridden by Fred Winter727 DownReveal answer → 12 reduced to 0327 DownReveal answer → Board game whose name means 'leap'529 DownReveal answer → Matt ___, actor who played Joey Tribbiani in the sitcoms Friends and Joey730 DownReveal answer → The third episode of the second series of Fawlty Towers1232 DownReveal answer → Novelist and poet who succeeded Jacqueline Wilson as Children's Laureate in 20071233 DownReveal answer → In medicine, a prediction of the course or outcome of a disease or disorder938 DownReveal answer → Courtier sent by Claudius to invite Hamlet to participate in the duel with Laertes in Shakespeare's play540 DownReveal answer → Hatred of women843 DownReveal answer → Scottish Formula One racing driver who won two World Championships, in 1963 and 1965844 DownReveal answer → 2026 film directed and written by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Jessie Buckley in a dual role845 DownReveal answer → 1788 play by Goethe for which Beethoven wrote incidental music647 DownReveal answer → Muscular vessel that conveys oxygenated blood from the heart to various parts of the body648 DownReveal answer → A wild mountain sheep, Ammotragus lervia, of north Africa also called a Barbary sheep650 DownReveal answer → Technical name for a cough651 DownReveal answer → Town in Greater Manchester on the River Irwell that is the birthplace of Sir Robert Peel455 DownReveal answer →

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